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940 True Life in God Notebook 91
Trinitarian Holiness; see? in My Name
too, bless My people;
November 2, 1997
(Sunday)
(While I was in the Greek Orthodox Church,
attending Mass, suddenly a fear gripped
me and I thought that I might be indisposed
to receive Our Good Lord in the Holy
Communion, and that if that was the case, I
might cause to bring forth upon me, with
wrath, the Judgement of God.
While those thoughts were crossing back
and forth in my mind, I experienced
suddenly in my heart, a joy and delight
that even though they came out first from
my heart, these seemed to spread like a
warm soothing liquid inside my very
bones. While I was experiencing this
consolation, my soul was being
transformed to come out of its fear and
gloom, into delights and light. In this joy,
my soul praised the Lord and I sang to Him
in silence. I revived.
Then, all of a sudden I saw our Lord
open His Mouth to say something to me. I
could not help notice how cheerful He was
and with delight He said to me…)
come to Me ....
(…while opening at the same time His
greenish-blue mantle. This gesture of His
attracted me as an iron is attracted and
drawn to a magnet. In this same manner
my soul was drawn irresistibly to His
Heart. And I found my head leaning on His
Bosom. Then, ever so tenderly, the Lover of
mankind said to me…)
ah, how utterly wretched you could be!
(…I was thinking, “Can someone hug fire to
their breast without setting their bosom
alight? Here I am, hugging the Sacred
Heart, how can my own heart not catch the
fire of love?”
When I had leaned my head on His
Divine Heart and while I was still leaning
on His Bosom, I felt His Bosom melting
away and my head being absorbed into His
Body. My head went through Him and
through His Sacred Heart, and I found my
head encompassed in His Heart, resting in
this way on the Son who is nearest to the
Father’s Heart…)
this Heart is your resting place; vessel-
of-My-Light, this Heart is the Unique,
the Prime and the Ultimate place in
which your tormented souls would find
an everlasting and affectionate peace
and sweetness;
(…while my Beloved was saying these
sweet words to me, He put His Arms
around me, tightening them on me,
pressing me now even more on His Bosom
just like someone who wants to protect
someone from being cold. He hid me
completely in His Mantle. This form of
holding me was just like someone who is
afraid to lose the one he holds. I was
considering, while I was having this
experience, in the Church, whether I should
write it down or not, and He said…)
write it for the benefit of souls and I will
join too while you are writing, to write
down My part;
(…the Lord’s Heart by now entirely
absorbed my head. It was like a gateway to
Heaven and during those delightful
moments while my soul was enjoying this
ineffable sweetness and tenderness of this
heavenly repose, my head was being
constantly covered by caresses…)
I have lavished your soul with My
favours; I ask you now to remain in My
Heart in this way; remain with Me, My
beloved one;
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